The bursting of the stock market bubble has left many private defined benefit pension plans underfunded, raising some concerns about the effects on cash flows and, for a few firms, on financial ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board released a post-implementation review report Monday on its pension standards and found they mostly accomplished their goals. The PIR project examined the ...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - United Parcel Service is changing the way it accounts for its company-sponsored pension and post-retirement benefit plan in the fourth quarter , which will reduce its net earnings ...

With a bitterly contested revision to options accounting rules barely behind them, the wizards of bookkeeping are launching another controversial project, this time over pension liabilities. The ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The accounting standards setter proposed on Thursday radical changes in pension fund calculations which could raise firms' retirement liabilities and force them to plough more money ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Private equity is the latest economic boogeyman. And there are good reasons for that. Assets in the private market have grown exponentially in the last 20 years, especially in ...

The issue of pension schemes for corporates is not likely to go away, especially given the prospect of tighter accounting rules. Take for example the UK postal service, the Royal Mail. The company has ...

Accounting errors were identified in new state audits of South Huntingdon and Ligonier Township police pension funds. According to findings released this week by Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy L ...

Assets in the private market have grown exponentially in the last 20 years, especially in North America, and now amount to nearly $12 trillion. The number of companies backed by private equity more ...